James B. Allardice (March 20, 1919 (Canton, Ohio) – February 15, 1966 (Van Nuys, California)) was a prominent American television comedy writer of the 1950s and 1960s. Allardice was born in Canton, Ohio to James and Lula Allardice. He went to the College of Wooster where he wrote muscials with James Wise, who later wrote the Broadway musical, Dames at Sea. During World War II, he served in the United States Army. While in the Army, Allardice wrote the play, At War with the Army. After the war, he went to study playwriting at Yale, where the play was first produced. In 1949, the play was produced on Broadway. The play was then bought by Paramount and Allardice moved to Hollywood, where he helped the play be adapted for film. In 1950, the movie version, At War with the Army was released, the